This leads me to ask about the effect of this war on the recruitment process. I guess that companies in the high-tec industry will start looking for people who know to develop software (transform innovation into code) as well as know how to develop IP (transform innovation into patents).
Would an ad for a software developer include not only the set of technologies / domains that a possible candidate should know, but also how many patents are on the candidate's belt?

Update
The patents war is now going to the next level - Google bought Motorola Mobility and its portfolio of about 17,000 patents. Now Google has a patent arsenal which can be used to really fight the rest of the big players.